Economic Importance for Humans: Negative

<p>There was no specific information found on negative impacts to humans. However, many fish are poisonous and venomous, and when disturbed, like many other animals, they can inflict serious wounds and death in some cases. This is also true of predatory fishes that are attracted to shiny objects. Humans willingly eat poisonous species considered delicacy, such as <span class="taxon">Tetraodontidae</span>. In some cases, people die from consuming poisonous fish. In the great majority of cases, however, fishes have positive or negligible impacts on humans.<span> (Froese and Pauly, 2004; Helfman, Collete, and Facey, 1997; Moyle and Cech, 2004)</span></p> <p><strong>Negative Impacts: </strong>Injures Humans; Injures Humans :: bites or stings; Injures Humans :: causes disease in humans; Injures Humans :: poisonous; Injures Humans :: venomous</p>